Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his comrades pressure him to make a sacrifice for their cause, and his beloved wife experiences personal problems and economic hardships.
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extr...
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...
Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Toda...